#15 - Data Based Decision Making

"The Common Core State Standards are holding our schools accountable for high levels of achievement for all students. Building administrators will be held liable for the closing the gap between high and low performing students. In order to accomplish this task, schools will need to assemble teams who are responsible for analyzing data, developing action plans, and establishing school wide improvement goals. As a principal, As a principal, how will you bring light to these goals to help utilize data based decision making?"
Expanded Ideas
  • Translate analysis into practice
  • Best practices vs. Next practices
  • Good, useful, valid, reliable data
  • Data rich, but not too data rich

What to do with all this data?
Floating Feathers Data Activity



Need more help?
http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/literacynumeracy/inspire/research/Using_Data.pdf